Wow thanks for the responses everyone! Yea most CGC 7.0's are listed between $2600-$2800 or best offer. The ones that have sold have been a best offer so final price no clue but guessing in the $2300-$2500 range. I did notice a couple ebay sellers had actual shops so asked them what a direct price would be and they offered between $2100-$2200 shipped.
So the local guy im going to meet him next week to view the book. Its a fair price and id rather see the book as ive seen variances in CGC grades so want to make sure its a clean 7.0 nothing sticking out that would bother me.
As for the market I get it if we all knew the future then we'd all be rich but more along the lines of if we start to see a recession especially without all the stimulus money in the economy and interest rates rising do key comics like ASM 129 get dinged at all? I dont mind waiting to buy for 6+ months just not sure if anyone has seen how Key comics trend vs economy. As someone else said its not a super rare comic so that's the only thing that has me a little concerned.
This is a buy and hold for me I loved punisher growing up (still do) and I have a lot of other early punisher CGC graded books (ASM 134-135, Marvel Preview #2, Marvel Super Action #1, etc) and so this is obviously the pinnacle of Punisher comics so not trying to flip more just dont want to buy at a peak when the book was selling for around half less than a year ago.
Again just thinking it through and any additional input is greatly appreciated!